United workers protest outsourcing threat

July 29, 2013

United Airlines employees lined the main road leading to IAH Monday. At issue for the hundreds of employees was to prevent future outsourcing for airport services now provided by the union-represented employees at United’s largest hub.

J. Patric Schneider/For the Chronicle

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A driver gives a thumbs up as United Airlines employees and Union members hold signs as they line the sidewalk on JFK Blvd on Monday, July 29, 2013, in Houston. Over 100 union and United Airlines' employees came out to protest the airlines plans to outsource work.

J. Patric Schneider/For the Chronicle

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A driver gives a thumbs up as United Airlines employees and Union members hold signs as they line the sidewalk on JFK Blvd on Monday, July 29, 2013, in Houston. Over 100 union and United Airlines' employees came out to protest the airlines plans to outsource work.